The Public Interest

The Dissolution of the Keynesian Consensus

James Dean

Special Edition 1980

On December 13, 1979, the government of Canada fell. For just six months the Conservatives had governed with a parliamentary minority, and they were defeated on a vote of no confidence. The issue was their first budget -a budget that rejected Keynesian economic policies, replacing them with radically different recommendations. Unemployment and slow growth were to be fought not by increasing the federal deficit but by reducing it.

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